There is presently a defamation case being played out in the Australian courts over posting on the Internet - site name withheld so I am not guilty of spamming - the results are very much up in the air and it has been expensive for the web master. If the suppression of opinion and free speech troubles you, we only have the litigious, thin skinned progenitors of these cases to thank. The mods are simply stuck between a rock and a hard place.